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Matthew 6:31-34
Food, Clothes and Tomorrow
Matthew 6:31-34
“Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
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Why it is worth knowing
- Jesus names the everyday questions of a tight budget: food, drink and clothing
- “Your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things”: the need is seen
- Seeking God’s Kingdom first is given in the same breath as the worry
- “Each day’s own evil is sufficient”: tomorrow’s trouble is left for tomorrow
Where it sits: Matthew 6:25-34
Therefore I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they? “Which of you by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan? Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin, yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was not dressed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today exists and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, won’t he much more clothe you, you of little faith? “Therefore don’t be anxious, saying, ‘What will we eat?’, ‘What will we drink?’ or, ‘With what will we be clothed?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first God’s Kingdom and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore don’t be anxious for tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Each day’s own evil is sufficient.
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Background
These verses close the part of the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus speaks about worry over daily needs. He has pointed his listeners to the birds and the wildflowers, which God feeds and clothes, and here he repeats the exact questions people ask when money is short: what will we eat, what will we drink, what will we wear. He treats those needs as real, and then he brings the worry down to one day at a time.